Cant Connect To Any Ns Servers

JLA-Martian_Manhunter

<div class="IPBDescription">Any help?</div> Was playing fine and all of a sudden today I tried to conenct to several servers and each of them stops dead when I get to Initializing and DOwnloading. Seems to load fine til that point, I get the countdown, it says Downloading and Initializing, and then nothing. It sits there until I hit escape and of course I get the Could Not complete connection attempt. Any suggestions? I am running a firewall (ZoneAlarm) but have tried it with Za disabled and still have the same problem. Same with Anti-Virus.

Jezpuh

Did you downloaded any stuff for ns resently?

JLA-Martian_Manhunter

Nope...havent downlaoded anything new I can think of. Have Messed with some settings on Spyware Blaster, but tried disabling that protection too just for kicks and still no effect. Trying to find any other reason that my connection would be failing at the point it is. ;/

About the only thing I can think of is I played some CS 1.6 last night with my cousin, I think its the first time I have used Steam sicne NS2.0 came out. There was a small Steam update I believe, but I cant see how that could affect my ability to connect in an NS game could it? Checked both CS 1.6 and 1.5 and both will connect just fine. Guess my next step is to try and re-install NS. Any other suggestions greatly appreciated. What a waste of a perfectly good drinking and gaming Saturday! <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->